Although you don't have to be a club member to play, it is encouraged for the experience and added perks of voting for officials and letting your opinion known. This event is for charity and to have fun... Mulligans are able to be purchased and all procedes go to charity... Just ask Lowe about mulligans. :-)

Although you don't have to be a club member to play, it is encouraged for the experience and added perks of voting for officials and letting your opinion known. This event is for charity and to have fun... Mulligans are able to be purchased and all procedes go to charity... Just ask Lowe about mulligans. :-)

I’ll return with more information soon, but wanted to officially announce that this year's Ice Bowl, Kansas City 27th, will be held at Rosedale Park on Saturday, January 25 and Sunday, January 26, and that the KCFDC has set its charitable goal high this year—$10K for our historic beneficiaries: Bishop Sullivan Center's Saint James Place Food Pantry and Harvesters: the Community Food Network.

To give us a chance to reach this goal, please download the Sponsorship Form and the Pledge Sheet. The Sponsorship Form is four pages long: the first page describes the mission, pages two and three include the sponsorship options and a sponsor agreement, and page four offers a brief description of the KCFDC and of disc golf.

The various sponsorship options ask for both money (to go directly to the charities) and goods and services that we can use to trim operating expenses and provide prizes for the CTP contest and/or a raffle. Thus, there are sponsorships for printing, power (generator), heat, groceries, beer, non-alcoholic beverages, and a chili-contest prize. While our cause is a good one, most companies get many similar solicitations during the year. This means that we often get sponsorship, not from the sponsorship form per se, but from having a personal relationship with the potential sponsor. So, consider asking for gift certificates from restaurants and bars you patronize. Or perhaps you know the manager of your grocery store. The sponsorship form will help establish your credibility.

This will be the third year we’ve used the Pledge sheet, which has raised about $1600 the last two years. This is where you solicit smaller donations from your friends, co-workers, and families.

I'll be back soon with more about the competition, merchandise, and the chili contest. If you have any questions, please get with me. We will need volunteers to bring chili and to help at the event itself.

Look for online registration soon at kcfdc.org. For now, please download a registration form. You can pre-register at either Disc Golf World or Dynamic Discs. More information is on the form.

$10K and 500 Players for the 2014 Kansas City Ice Bowl

The Kansas City Ice Bowl is held every year in January at Rosedale Park. Its purposes are raising funds to fight hunger, having fun, and connecting our disc golf community in a positive way to the community at large. Our goals this year are to have 500 participants and to raise $10000 for our traditional charities: the Bishop Sullivan Center’s St James Food Pantry and Harvesters: the Community Food Network.

While the emphasis of the KC Ice Bowl is on charity and fun, we want as many disc golfers to play at least one, and hopefully, both rounds. This is how it works. You need to post an 18-hole score on either of Rosedale Park’s courses to qualify to play the nine-hole final round. Here’s when you can get your 18-hole round in:

For the shotgun starts, groups are limited to six per tee. The Ice Bowl tournament director, Ben Crosby, will do his best to accommodate all requests to play with your buds.

For the flex starts, especially on Sunday morning, please limit groups to five players. You can choose your own group or we will help you find one. Please note that to play the Sunday’s afternoon nine-hole final round, you need to turn your first-round scorecard in no later than 12:30 pm.

Unlimited mulligans are for sale to be used during the first round only. Their use is highly encouraged as all mulligan proceeds go to our charities. In fact, we challenge you to buy an Ice Bowl Championship!

For the nine-hole second round, cards are determined by ranking players according to their first-round scores. This means that you'll likely be very closely matched (or at least have very similar scores) with others on your card. Players will be told which nine holes to play (top 1-9, top 10-18, DU 1-9, DU 10-18. The player on each card with the best total score wins a DX disc. The person with the lowest 27-hole score keeps the traveling trophy for a year.

Potluck Lunch/Chili ContestOne of the wonderful traditions of the KC Ice Bowl is bringing food to share, especially chili. Those who bring chili are automatically entered into the Chili Contest, which awards a grand prize. Please let Rhonda Crosby know at 785.424.3672 or rhondacrosby@gmail.com that you’re bringing chili and/or other food to share.

Prizes for the Closest-to-the-Pin Contest or RaffleWe depend on donated prizes for the CTP contest, such a new discs, clothing, gift certificates, or most anything that people might like to win. You Here’s a sponsorship form to solicit prizes or cash donations.

My cousin has officially donated the proper generator. He let us use it 2 years ago and is letting us use it again. A Rosedale neighbor is delivering it with a full can of gas and picking it up when we are done. Just like last time! We will need power strips and a few long extension cords.

Typically the need for power is only on Sunday, as Saturday is reserved for playing in a suitable fashion.

THe long day on Sunday makes it tough so that is the food day typically!

Glover, over the years many have not always enjoyed your humour, but you have consistently been a great patron to helping out where you can, and yet again you achieve that status. Thanks so much for getting this taken care of yet again! Hundreds if not thousands of people thank you at this point!